May 2001 - openSUSE PPC - openSUSE Mailing Lists

Problem with Linux/MacOS Printing - Please help
by Andrei Verovski 15 May '01

15 May '01

Hi, I have TCP/IP forwarding queues (via lpr old) to networked PostScript printers defined in printcap and succesfully working with Linux and Samba. Now I would like to make them work with MacOS9. There are two choices, through Netatalk and through Apple Desktop Printer (TCP/IP & LPR). Unfortunately, none seem to be work via Linux (although direct AppleTalk printing bypassing print server from MacOS works). 1) ------------------------------ Phaser740L|lp1|tek_phaser740_host-tek_phaser740_queue-Phaser740L|tek_phaser 740_host tek_phaser740_queue:\ :lp=:\ :rm=tek_phaser740_host:\ :rp=tek_phaser740_queue:\ :sd=/var/spool/lpd/tek_phaser740_host-tek_phaser740_queue-Phaser740L:\ :lf=/var/spool/lpd/tek_phaser740_host-tek_phaser740_queue-Phaser740L/log:\ :af=/var/spool/lpd/tek_phaser740_host-tek_phaser740_queue-Phaser740L/acct: \ :ar:bk:mx#0:\ :tr=:cl:sh: Above is my printcap entry (again, it work with Linux and Samba). I create desktop printer (new Printer -> LPR) with Desktop Printing Utility, enter Linux box IP address, and queue name "lp1". Verify command returns OK status. Anyway, printing from MacOS results PostScript error 8827 (I have selected correct PPD file, and printer, Tektronix Phaser 740L, has built-in PostScript L3 interpreter). 2) ------------------------------ So, I went another way and edited Netatalk papd.conf file: Phaser740_Linux:\ :pr=lp1:\ :op=wes:\ :pd=/etc/PPD/TEK740L.PPD: The printer becomes visible via chooser, but again I've got PostScript error. I removed :op=wes: statement, dropped PPD file definition, changed :pr=lp1: to :pr= tek_phaser740_queue:, but it still does not work. Instead of PostScript error appears another message "printer is not responding to request". I have checked spool directory permission (lp/lp), everything is OK. Of course, I restarted netatalk after each change of papd.conf file. Please help. Thanks in advance. Andrei

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console messages
by Joss Winn 15 May '01

15 May '01

Hello, Ever since installing 7.1, I have had these messages immediately after booting. Could anyone tell me how to get rid of them and why they are appearing? May 15 21:55:56 linux modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module mousedev May 15 21:55:56 linux modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module usb-ohci May 15 21:55:57 linux modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module keybdev May 15 21:55:58 linux kernel: ip_conntrack (2048 buckets, 16384 max) USB keyboard, USB mouse and USB in general works fine. Thank you Joss -- http://www.josswinn.org

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PPC 2.4.5pre1 kernel problem
by Andrei Verovski 15 May '01

15 May '01

Hi, I have problem with custom compiled 2.4.4 and 2.4.5-pre1 kernels from fsmlabs on SuSE 7.0 PPC, bitkeeper tree. I have compiled kernel with ALL Mac-specific drivers, including serial port support, and installed new modutils 2.4 from SuSE ftp. And now the problems: 1) Built-in iBook Modem is no longer recognized by Yast2. 2) Sound recognized but does not work. 3) I have boot message that module char-major-4 is not found. char-major-4 is an alias to dmasound in etc/modules.conf, I have changed alias to dmasound_core, message disappear, but sound does not work anyway. It seems my problems relate to modules.conf file. Does anyone have valid modules.conf file for SuSE 7.0 PPC/2.4.4 kernel, or instruction how to properly update it? Thanks in advance Andrei

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Linux on Motorola PowerStack
by Joachim Gabler 14 May '01

14 May '01

Hi, I have a Motorola Powerstack running Windows NT at the moment. I think it has a special BIOS for Windows - even the bootmonitor has some Windows look and feel - as far as I remember, for running AIX on the machine, another BIOS was needed. Does anybody have experience installing Linux on such a system? Should it be possible in principle? The BIOS version is: Motorola PowerStack RISC PC Firmware: Motorola PowerPC Firmware Version 3.04.08 96/09/10 MCG IR03 Thanks for any help! Joachim

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firewire
by Joss Winn 14 May '01

14 May '01

Hello, I was wondering what the current status of firewire is for PPC Linux. I have been taking a look at http://linux1394.sourceforge.net and it appears that it is working on the x86 platform. An update in March says that work is under way to fully support PPC. Currently, what support is there? Is there any point in me trying to get my CD burner working with the currently available drivers. The web site says my model works with the SBP-2 driver on x86. Thanks very much joss -- http://www.josswinn.org

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Re: [suse-ppc] Setting Acceleration on Rage
by Ola Olsson 12 May '01

12 May '01

At 9:05 AM +0200 4/27/01, Uwe Albrecht wrote: >try to reconfigure XFree 4.x with SaX 2. This works. I think when >you install SuSE 7.1 for the first time the Framebuffer - Server is >activated. You must configure the accelerated Server by yourself. I'm trying to reconfigure using SaX2 but am confused. SaX2 says I have an ATI Rage 128 Pro AGP 4x (TMDS) with r128 driver. Expert says that I'm using these options: usefbdev,hw_cursor,dpms. I'm assuming that the first option is use frame-buffer device. Do I turn this off and substitute another option? But which option, there are so many. There is an "accel" option. There is also a "hdcursor" option. What's the difference between "hd_cursor" and "hdcursor"? Either way I've been unable to test these configuration changes. When I select test I get the familiar adjustment screen where I can tweek the width and height. When I click save configuration however the screen switches to gray with the X cursor and stays there without reloading my desktop. At this point I have to kill the session with ctrl + alt + delete. Best Regards, Ola Olsson -- /***************************** /* Ola Olsson /* oeolsson(a)enosis.net * http://www.enosis.net /* "I learn so I can teach so I can learn." /*****************************

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more on that buzzing
by Joss Winn 12 May '01

12 May '01

well just to confirm that there is really something odd going on, I came to my computer this morning and sure enough, there is a buzzing coming from the internal speakers that wasn't there the last time I touched it last night. It changes pitch depending on the brightness of the screen. As I write this in mutt/vim on a black screen, it is fairly subdued. Now if I switch to my netscape desktop I get a solid bass buzzing. When I switch to Konqueror with a grey background, I get a higher pitch buzzing. If this continues, I am going to have to learn how to play a decent tune on this thing! :-) Joss -- http://www.josswinn.org/humour.html

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alsa-dev, alsapayer and audio CD (again!)
by Joss Winn 11 May '01

11 May '01

I think there was mention on this list recently of there not being alsa-dev on the 7.1 CD. I have it on my CDs. It is called alsa-devel 21:28 joss:~ $ rpm -q alsa-devel alsa-devel-0.5.10-16 21:28 joss:~ $ I got my CDs a couple of weeks before they were available to buy so maybe the packages changed, but I can't imagine why.... I would like to ask a couple of sound related questions. When trying to run alsaplayer I get this error: 21:22 joss:~ $ alsaplayer AlsaPlayer 0.99.32 (C) 1999 Andy Lo A Foe <andy(a)alsa-project.org> and others, see AUTHORS file for details Output plugin: ALSA output v1.1 ALSA->set_sample_rate(): parameter error "Invalid argument" ERROR: failed to set sampling frequency. Exiting... And finally, is there anyone on this list who is able to listen to audio cds on a summer 2000 iMac DV SE with SUSE 7.1PPC, because I have tried every bit of advice I can get and still no joy. thanks very much joss -- http://www.josswinn.org/humour.html

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mutt/procmail/fetchamail/7.1
by Joss Winn 11 May '01

11 May '01

hello, following up from my message yesterday, I thought I would note a couple of observations concerning mail and SUSE 7.1PPC. The version of fetchmail included has a bug that produces an error saying that the command "AUTH" is not recognised (or something similar). I looked around on the web and this is a known bug in fetchmail. I am now using the latest stable version and all is well again. The buggy version works fine by the way, it just produces the error. I solved my procmail problem by shifting the .procmailrc file into /etc instead of my home folder. I've no idea why that makes any difference but it works for me as I'm the only user on this machine. Any ideas on why this should be so are very welcome. cheers Joss p.s. good Japanese support in SUSE now :-) -- http://www.josswinn.org

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Software
by Even 11 May '01

11 May '01

Just (a week ago) completed my first PPC installation "without" problems and I have dedicated a week browse around the system and figure out what is different between PPC and x86 (this is my first Mac and I like it) But were can I get more software? Freshmeat? Is there a single source were I can find software for SuSE PPC or do I just have to keep on browsing? From the X86 world I am used to find the software I want, but now ... Very little. I am looking for Java developing tools like J builder (yes I like Netbeans, but another would be nice) and and office package like StarOffice is there any out there? If there is very few apps for PPC and there is very little effort to port more. What can be done to change this situation (yes I know I can do it my self :-) I am basically trying to find out some more about the PPC community I know this questions have probably been answered several times, but I am brand new to PPC Regards Even

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xftp and 7.1
by Joss Winn 11 May '01

11 May '01

while we are trying to find problems in 7.1.... I have never been able to conenct remotely or anonymously to any ftp site (including my own) with xftp on suse 7.1. It was fine in 7.0 but now xft just goes dead and I have to kill it. Is anyone else having this problem or know of a good, stable GUI alternative? thanks joss -- http://www.josswinn.org/humour.html

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Setting Acceleration on Rage
by Ola Olsson 11 May '01

11 May '01

Hi, Hope this isn't a silly question. After upgrading from 7.0 to 7.1 on a Mac G3 Tower and G4 tower using kernel 2.4.2 and XFree86 release 4.0.1, I find that I don't have acceleration working. Window dragging is slow and OpenGL doesn't seem to be functioning either as the spectrum analyzer in XMMS is slow and chunky. If I remember correctly, setting this option in 7.0 was obvious and easy. Has something changed or am I just going blind and missed it. Best Regards, Ola Olsson -- /********************************************/ /** Ola Olsson **/ /** oeolsson(a)enosis.net **/ /** I learn so I can teach so I can learn **/ /********************************************/

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SuSE PPC/ALICE question
by Andrei Verovski 11 May '01

11 May '01

Hi, Is it possible to build custom CD SuSE PPC Linux installation using ALICE from original SuSE CDs, updates from SuSE ftp, and only those packages already installed SuSE on my iBook? I believe my own install would be one or two CDs only. Thanks in advance Andrei

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Re: PPC-INFO
by Olaf Hering 10 May '01

10 May '01

On Thu, May 10, Albrecht Ullrich wrote: > At least the install kernel from 7.1 can't detect (it turns black) the > cinema display. I tried sax2 only once and it din't detect the cinema > display either (maybe i just wrongly started sax2). It can autodetect the PB, but in no way the digital displays. sax2 -f should be fine on both machines. Gruss Olaf -- $ man clone BUGS Main feature not yet implemented...

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PPC-INFO
by Albrecht Ullrich 10 May '01

10 May '01

Hi, we were successfully able to install 7.1 on a PowerBook G4 Titanium (no kernel parameter) and on a cube with Apple Cinema Display (kernel parameter video=aty128fb:vmode:22). Almost all parts (USB-mouse, USB-printer, network card, modem, sound, mol) are running out of the box. The hole installation was done in text mode. Then we created manually the necessary XFree86 configuration file. For the PowerBook we used the file from the provided link (http://ftp.linuxppc.org/kernels/titanium/) . For the Cinema Display we used as a starting point XFree86.g4 from the CD1 and the parameters from vmode:22 and came up with the following modeline: Modeline "1600x1024" 108.5 1600 1688 1704 1808 1024 1025 1026 1036 +hsync +vsync We hope this information are useful for others. Thanks to Suse for the great distribution. A. Ullrich

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Re: strange kernel messages
by MAHRF＠de.ibm.com 10 May '01

10 May '01

Hi! Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't 40cm (about 16") the maximum cable length for EIDE cables? Especially for UDMA connections? That would explain that your drives work now. Ferdinand Mahr Am Mit, 09 Mai 2001 schrieb Olaf Hering: > What kernel do you use? > I recommend the 2.4.2 kernel, the used CMD646 controller is broken and > works only with 2.2.16 and 2.4.2. > > > Gruss Olaf Until now I tried 2.2.16, 2.2.18 and 2.4.2! I got a hint from Jochen Hoffmann. He told me they had similar problems with two IBM DTLA-305040 (same family as mine) on AMD K7 computers running SuSE 6.4. Kernel update from 2.2.18 to 2.2.19 solved his problem and as a work around he turned off dma support. So I installed 2.2.18 and 2.4.2 but the error messages still occurred. Then I turned off UDMA of the DTLA-307030 and for the first time these kernel messages disappeared (with kernel 2.2.16 or 2.4.2). It must be a data transfer problem. After shortening the UltraATA cable from 24" to 12" I turned on again UDMA Mode 2. It works well since five hours. I only get a nfsserver failure during bootup with kernel 2.4.2: Starting kernel based NFS serverlockdsvc: Invalid argument .....failed and a few new kernel messages: May 9 19:46:46 MacHu8 inetd[395]: swat/tcp (2): bind: Address already in use May 9 19:47:37 MacHu8 /usr/sbin/gpm[637]: Error in protocol I'm not sure why this cable shortening works. Why should a longer cable support one UDMA/33 drive and another on the same cable won't work? And what about my CMD646? In which way is it broken? Regards, Micha

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Re: Sound and Boot Priority for 7.1
by Michel Pape 10 May '01

10 May '01

Hi Ola, > Second: with 7.0 I changed the boot priority to MacOS by > swapping lines in the os.chooser file so I had to press the space bar > to launch Linux. This doesn't seem to function anymore with 7.1. In > fact 7.1 seems to ignore the os.chooser file. I'm currently stuck > with Linux as the default OS. How do I switch it to default to MacOS? I experienced the same problem just recently when I updated from 7.0 to 7.1 and wanted to re-use my old os.chooser file. I managed to have the open firmware become aware of my os.chooser file by removing the Mac OS Rom file from the suseboot folder (and of course marking the os.chooser file as tbxi). At least this worked for me on my Powerbook G3 Pismo. It does indeed seem that the os.chooser file was ignored when the Mac OS Rom file was present. Cheers, Michel Visual Systems GmbH Email: pape(a)vsys.de Web: www.vsys.de

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trouble running smc etherpower II (9432TX) under suse 6.4 and 7.1
by Timo Sch=?ISO-8859-1?B?9g==?=ler 10 May '01

10 May '01

hello out there, i have lots of trouble trying to use my second eth interface under suse linux, both 6.4 and 7.1. this is concerning my home server (and every other mac i set up with suse linux 'til now) with the following unspectacular config: power mac 8200/120, one 1,2gb scsi hd (apple built in), one 4,5gb scsi hd (/home), 64 megs of ram (ok ok, it's not my g4 with 1gig ;), on board 10mbit eth (=eth0, works fine unless its pretty slow), one smc etherpower 10/100 (9432TX/MP) via the 'epic 100' module. (if i does work after your hints i guess i'll give it a second to manage nfs for my sun machine... ;) this seems to be pretty normal. everything works fine until you try to activate this smc card to work as the eth1 interface -- there's no difference trying device eth0 for the card. restarting the network (to enable eth1=smc) results in a hanging machine which is not only dead on the console, but also doesn't answer pings nor is reachable via telnet. you have to reset the machine. ***my question now is: did anyone successful use this card under (suse) linux?*** i tried to use this card on a power mac with netbsd -- no problem there... because it's a pretty good card, i think ;) tia for your answers and greetz, timo (aka Pansen)

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[suse-ppc] for mail filter
by Achim Kleinmann 10 May '01

10 May '01

hello, wouldn't it be nice, to have a subject, that begins with for example [suse-ppc] or so, please, please, please... it makes things so much easier ciao achim kleinmann

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PPC-irDA and mobile phones
by Martin Kloss 10 May '01

10 May '01

Hi everyone, I'm trying to collect some information on Linux-irDA and using it in connection with mobile phones. I checked the irDA project site at sourceforge but couldn't really find any helpful information on this subject. As I understood the current kernel already supports the irDA protocols (not sure which ones, though), but couldn't find any tools apart from Palm related stuff. In this case, I'm using a nokia 8210 and I'd love to connect through the irDA port. Does anyone know of any tools or libs (so I can roll my own) around? cheers, Martin. Martin Kloss martin.kloss(a)triquart.de ************************ Triquart, Hamburg Bellealliancestr.17 20259 Hamburg Germany Tel.+49 (40)432 923-0 Fax +49 (40)432 923-23 ************************* "Lingo objektorientiert" Das Buch zum Autor jetzt bestellen unter: http://www.amazon.de/exec/obidos/ASIN/3934358322/lingmmugd

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Trouble running SuSE7.0 with OrangeLink Firewire/USB PCI Card installed
by Marc Jaeckle 10 May '01

10 May '01

Hi everyone, a couple of days ago I installed an OrangeLink Firewire/USB PCI Card in my beige G3 (266MT). Since then I haven't been able to boot into an existing SuSE 7.0 installation. I tried quite a few precompiled kernels (SuSE 2.2.14, SuSE 2.2.16, SuSE 2.2.18, SuSE 2.4.1, SuSE, 2.4.2, a couple of kernels from Benjamin Herrenschmidt and others) and none did work except for the official 2.2.19 kernel. Even that one only works after a cold restart. I wouldn't mind using that kernel but since using it my mouse stopped working under linux completly and I can't convince it to work. Any ideas? (I only want my mouse back - I'm not asking for a way how to use USB or Firewire under Linux) Gruss Marc

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HFS+
by Doug Edwards 10 May '01

10 May '01

Is there any way of reading HFS+ partitions from linux? -- Dr Doug Edwards, Senior Lecturer in Computer Science Room IT 210, Department of Computer Science, University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester, M13 9PL, U.K. Tel: (+44) 161 275 6191 Mobile: 07968 799 336 email: doug(a)cs.man.ac.uk FAX: (+44) 161 275 6204 The box said 'Requires Windows 95, or better.' So I bought a Macintosh.

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emulation mouse button
by Tomek 10 May '01

10 May '01

Hi! I have a question: How to emulate 2 and 3 mouse button on iMac and PowerMac G3? Thomas

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insmod keybdev failed
by Bernd Ulrich 10 May '01

10 May '01

Hi, as i connected an USB barcode reader on the USB-port, i got the following error message: unresolved symbol mac_hid_mouse_emulate_buttons unresolved symbol macv_hid_keyboard_sends_linux_keycodes insmod /lib/modules/2.4.2/kernel/drivers/input/keybdev.o failed insmod keybdev failed i'm using an iBook with SuSE 7.1 and Kernel 2.4.2 What can i do to let it work ? The barcode reader works with keyboard emulation and works fine on MacOS. thanks for reply, Bernd Ulrich

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PM 9600 and 7.1
by alexei＠surfhorse.tailie.net 10 May '01

10 May '01

Much to my shock and surprise, when I purchased SuSE 7.0, it was only -after- I made the purchase that I found out that the kernel as shipped didn't support both PCI busses in my PM 9600. So now, I guess I have to ask: is it supported? I can't, for the life of me, find an entry in any of the knowledgebases, so I'm wondering- anyone out there know? Alexei

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